Recent content by Angel Ariel

Genie+ is not Maxpass. Maxpass allowed re-rides as long as there was availability (which in Disneyland, due to the better concentration of rides, there often was), and also included photopass photos (the bigger of the two things being re-rides, obviously).it was also less expensive (at least...

If it's short enough to do multiple attractions in 2 hrs DAS users likely are going through those short standby queues. For ex - say SDMT is a 75 min wait. DAS user can't wait that long, so they DAS it. Non-disabled person has an ILL for SDMT with the same return window as the DAS user...

And yet on the other end, there's been posts in this thread saying the opposite - that if das users weren't also buying genie+, then it shows they were abusing DAS. Basically in this thread and others on other boards - there is no "winning" for DAS users. Either they are cheating because they...

Disney did have a limit prior to this change - 6 (DAS user + 5). If CMs were routinely approving 12+ people for DAS (for a party that only had 1 DAS user), then that's a training issue on Disney's part.

And this has been gone over. There's a difference between choosing to separate for a few rides, while having a boatload of rides that a family can choose to ride together as there's no height requirement, and telling some families they *have* to separate in order to have a disability need met...

There'd be less anxiety if I didn't need to purchase expensive non-refundable tickets in order to even apply for the DAS ;)

As I said..the issue is the "shoulds" and the "might"...it's the unknown. It causes anxiety, as was the point of my post. I do think she should still qualify, but now it's a question mark vs a known quantity. It won't be a known quantity until our next trip, which we don't have planned yet.

people who legit qualify for DAS are now concerned they're going to be the baby thrown out with the bathwater - caught up in something unintended, yet bad nonetheless. Dd has a developmental disability, and yeah is impacted to such a degree we *shouldnt* have an issue. But the unknown leads...

Prebooks are more stressful than anything in our experience, as it goes straight to the issues we had with fp+ - that is needing to know a month in advance exactly where in the park you're going to be at a given time. That's just not possible for us no matter how much I try to have a touring...

Part of our planning to accommodate DD's disability is the timing of our trips. We don't go during peak travel times. There's never been a 3hr wait for us to use DAS for, because there's been no 3hr standby wait in the parks for anyone. I went through our DCA day 1 in my head last night, with...

Disney actually told people to get food or shop or ride an attraction with a shorter wait. They didn't "turn a blind eye" to it. They encouraged it. In fact it's still on the DAS page now in the FAQ. Abuse is using something in a way that wasn't intended. Disney not only intended, they...

This is why the individual need matters. A person can be able to handle the outdoor walkways, general location of the parks, etc- and thrive and crave the rides themselves, while also having disability-related issues that result in struggles with the queue environment. Honestly, it sucks to...

And DAS users that need it are also the ones less likely to be making it to rope drop, so that first hour isn't the advantage for them it is for those that abuse it.

Except we keep hearing that genie+ is rarely selling out, so they don't need to increase genie+ capacity, they need to make genie+ more attractive - which the general consensus here has been, they do that by lessening the number of people in lightning lane. Taking whatever the number of DAS...

I mean, come on. This is just disingenuous. Whether I'm talking to a Disney fan or a Disney newbie, literally one of the first things mentioned are the long lines that will have to be waited in. That people exist who want to cheat that doesn't mean the majority of guests don't understand...